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Turning to more rational voices
Editorials Comments Updated: May 18, 2013 10:00pmSince the Department of Community Corrections first announced its plans to locate halfway houses for level 3 and 4 sex offenders on its property adjacent to its female housing facility, the...
Committee gives do-pass vote to proposed residency requirement
Editorials Comments Updated: May 17, 2013 9:33pmThumb Up
The advice not to watch sausage being made was apropo for Thursday afternoon’s meeting of the Pine Bluff City Council’s Administration Committee.
On the table was a proposed...
Estes leaves roomy casket
Editorials Comments Updated: May 16, 2013 9:00pmIn Shakespeare’s Julius Caesar, Marc Anthony gives the murdered emperor’s funeral oration. Most high school kids can recite at least a line or two.
In it Anthony says in part, “The evil that...
Neither present nor future
Editorials Comments Updated: May 15, 2013 9:00pmIt’s time for the foolishness to end. At least that’s what Pine Bluff City Council member Bill Brumett thinks with regard to the stalemate created by three of his peers on the council: Thelma...
Bargains that aren’t cheap
Editorials Comments Updated: May 14, 2013 9:00pmIt’s the kind of industrial disaster that the United States has largely relegated to the annals of history, but for the workers of Bangladesh, the terror is present and common. As has been widely...
Traditional education better and worse
Editorials Comments Updated: May 13, 2013 9:05pmRecently, we’ve have heard a lot of promising discussion about the future of the University of Arkansas at Pine Bluff. In particular, Interim Chancellor Calvin Johnson has dared to challenge one...
Campuses demonstrate wisdom
Editorials Comments Updated: May 11, 2013 9:00pmIf you’ve ever seen the classic holiday movie, A Christmas Story, then you probably remember the main character Ralphie unhappily wearing bunny suit pajamas made by an oblivious aunt. As Ralphie...
Eliminate puppy mills, improve life for pets
Editorials Comments Updated: May 10, 2013 9:00pmPuppy mills and their elimination should be an integral part of all our discussions on pet over-population.
To clarify at the outset, puppy mills are distinct from professional breeding...
Quick work on veterans home good sign
Editorials Comments Updated: May 09, 2013 9:00pmWe applaud the speed with which some legislative action is becoming reality.
We are referencing the Tuesday meeting of a 22-member task force the state Legislature established to help plan...
Monster man inspires generations
Editorials Comments Updated: May 08, 2013 9:00pm“If you make things too real, sometimes you bring it down to the mundane,” Ray Harryhausen once told a group of interviewers. The celebrated master of stop-motion cinematography was speaking about...